Nearly 150 public schools — or 9 percent of all elementary, middle and high schools — were hit with D or F letter grades by the city Wednesday.
While those results would normally put the schools in the line of fire for closing — particularly Dewitt Clinton HS in The Bronx and Boys & Girls HS in Brooklyn, which earned their third straight F's — failing institutions have less to fear this year.
Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has vowed to scrap the grading system that's been in place since 2007 and impose an immediate moratorium on school closures once he takes over City Hall.
"While Mayor-elect de Blasio supports making overall school progress reports available to parents, he would eliminate letter grades of schools, which offer little real insight to parents and are not a reliable indicator of how schools are actually performing," said his spokeswoman, Lis Smith.
De Blasio's campaign book called for supporting struggling schools with a "war room" team, and replacing not just the principals but also top school support staffers.
By contrast, Mayor Bloomberg has made closing large, struggling high schools and replacing them with multiple small schools a hallmark of his education reforms.
The city's Department of Education has closed or begun phasing out 164 schools since Bloomberg took over in 2002, using letter grades and other factors to hold them accountable.
"Parents don't have the ability to go and get down in the weeds and go through all the data," Bloomberg said in defense of the letter grades, at an unrelated press conference in Hell's Kitchen.
"A lot of them have to go to work and don't have the time," he added. "So getting it down to something that they can use, I think, is not making it too simplistic. Quite the contrary, I think it is making it useful."
School officials said they aren't identifying schools for closure this year, given de Blasio's expected call for a moratorium. But they said they would still put out an annual list Thursday of struggling schools that merit closer attention.
Overall this year, 63 percent of schools earned an A or B, while 28 percent were issued C's.
Last year, 8 percent of schools got the lowest D and F grades, slightly below this year's 9 percent.
Officials withheld grades from 11 schools where attendance was negatively impacted when they were displaced by Hurricane Sandy.
Charter schools as a group earned a slightly higher percentage of A's and B's — 69 percent — than traditional public schools, and slightly fewer D's and F's, 8 percent.
Among the 13 percent of schools that saw major year-to-year swings, PS 190 in East New York jumped from an F to an A
"I can't believe it. It's an excellent school. My son has been doing good here," said Maritza Mora, whose son attends seventh grade at the Bronx middle school. "I think it went even better this year than the first year."
Additional reporting by Erin Calabrese
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